O Thou, at whose dread name we stand.
H.W.F.
Trapp, Rev. Jacob, S.T.D., Muskegon, Michigan, April 12, 1899—still living. He was educated at Valparaiso University and The Pacific Unitarian School for the Ministry (now called The Starr King School for the Ministry). He was ordained in 1929 and has served Unitarian churches in Salt Lake City, Utah; Denver, Colorado; and Summit, New Jersey. In 1932 he wrote a hymn beginning,
Wonders still the world shall witness,
which is included, with some revisions, in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937.
H.W.F.
Tuckerman, Rev. Joseph, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, January 18, 1778—April 20, 1840, Havana, Cuba. He graduated from Harvard College in 1798, a classmate of Rev. William Ellery Channing, whose close friend he remained through life. He was licensed to preach by the Boston Association and in 1801 was ordained minister of a church in Chelsea, Massachusetts, at that time a small farming community, which he served for 25 years. He then moved to Boston to begin his “ministry-at-large” to the unchurched elements in the population, under the auspices of the American Unitarian Association and later of the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches. He attained wide reputation for his philanthropy and his wide methods of social reform. Harvard gave him the honorary degree of D.D. in 1824.
His hymn
Father divine! This deadening power control (Aspiration)
is attributed to “Tuckerman” in Hedge and Huntington’s Hymns for the Church of Christ, 1853, and in Longfellow and Johnson’s Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, but is not listed in Julian’s Dictionary or included in later collections.